I was at smart and final some months ago and the barcode on my steaks wouldn't scan. I told the cashier to just enter it manually and he said, "Not for what they pay me." And put it in my bag for free.
I went to Spirit Halloween last year and I found a cool long sleeve shirt with mushrooms on it. It was like $30 but I wanted it. The girl at the register said "oh. Oh no. Oh this isn't supposed to be out these shouldn't be in stock" or something, and said "well I will give it to you for ... $5?" I said sold! 🤣
My only time at a spirit Halloween I bought a sword and was gonna buy a cool DnD tin full of cherry candies but the lady checking me out scanned the sword then put it and the candies in a bag and when I went to double check if she got it as well she just told me to have a great day.
I once found a top that I liked for £22. It was the only one left on the shelf but had a small hole near the tag (looked as if the machine had missed some stitching).
I took it to the checkout and asked if they had any more because this one has a hole. The woman said no this is the last one.. I'll let you have it for £2.
My store's policy is that the cashier asks what sounds fair and charges them for that, since finding the price tag is more effort than it's worth most of the time.
My store director will give it away for free if she's on the floor, since it's our mistake and she's authorized to do that. I make a point of asking her how much I should charge the customer if she's within shouting distance, even if there's a different manager closer. I like giving things away when I have the opportunity.
I remember when Hastings was open and they always asked if I found everything I needed. The rental DVD section in our store always has things out of place and there was usually something you couldn't find.
Ingles made it worse. In that store, if it doesn't ring up right, you actually do get the first one free. The rest are scanned at the corrected price. This worked in my favor once buying a $30 can of baby formula that didn't ring up right. My kid ate free for like 2 days!
Baby formula is so incredibly expensive. I called around a few months ago trying to track down a very specific formula and no one local had it. Wasn’t my kid but I know how to pull strings. Ended up finding it and securing a case. Sooooooo expensive, I think it was $60 a container x6 yoinks
My dad would make that joke a lot and I would be absolutely mortified 😭 I always apologized to the cashier because I know for a fact that had heard that wayyyyy too many times. They were always polite but still I found it annoying so I can't imagine how they felt
I work in a convenience store/deli, and I get people saying that they should get discounts. "For how many I bought I should/Since I had to wait for the coffee I should get-" My dude, I don't even get a discount. You are about to get double charged if you keep it up!
🤣 when I worked at a convenience store my last year of high school, we were allowed free fountain drinks and coffee. But I took whatever the fuck I wanted lmao. And I would only give free stuff to first responders, I would tell them just get a bunch of fountain drinks because those cost next to nothing.
Also one time there was a bitch customer trying to buy beer but I had to ID them. She threw a fit, so I said sorry systems are down I can’t finish this transaction 🤪
I'm rather honest with my customers. Mind, I get free coffee, but I dont drink it, so if I get a stray first responder, fire-fighter or local officer, I usually let them go for a cup, basically just saying it's mine, since I'd otherwise not make use of it. Only major issue here is that we have to I.D. everyone for cigarettes, regardless if you look like you are 12, or look like you have a week to live before turning to dust. So I get quite a few people who like to give me a hard time over it.
I used to GET OFF on just staring down people that made the obvious jokes. The best was when they'd follow up with "that was a joke" and I'd get to hit them with the Han Solo "I know."
Yup. I got the added “more like dollar twenty-five tree” as well when I worked at Dollar Tree. Ya I fucking know inflation ruins everything. 3 other people have made that joke this shift.
As someone who was a vegetarian for a long time.
"Did you know vegetarian is an old Indian word for bad hunter? Heeheehoohoo"
Made me wanna go cannibal right then and there.
I got so many brownie points as a server because I carded all the women. I loved when a woman would come in with her daughter, I’d ask for ID and the mom would ask “mine too? Haha” not expecting me to say yes. As I get older, it is a little ego boost to get carded.
As a 38-year-old man, I take it as a compliment when I get carded, even though I know it's probably meaningless. At the very least, it usually means they aren't sure if I'm over 35... so that's something.
One of my first managers was extremely chivalrous with every little old lady he could. I worked there 5 years and only saw one person draw the line with him.
I don't know how much that has to do with skin colour? In my experience as a cashier, older women in general tend to like it if we happen to be chatting and I ask for their ID for alcohol, some don't but it's never skin colour that would indicate it
I was thinking the same thing. I worked with the elderly for years, and almost all older women beam uncontrollably if you insinuate in any way that they're young. It's pretty universal. I don't know why skin color has to go into every conversation about everything all the time, but here we are.
When I was a table busser, it was me asking, "can I get anything out of your way?" and them responding, "you can get this!" hands me their unpaid check
Then the server asks “ is there anything else I can get for you?” and they laugh and reply with “yeah a million dollars haha” then we all have to stand around and fake laugh before passing out on whippets in the beer cooler
Used to wait tables at Applebees when I was in college. Can’t even count how many times I had customers ask for a refund after eating 90% of their meal because they didn’t enjoy it. All I could think was “it’s Applebees, nothing here besides the blondie and mozzarella sticks are enjoyable”
Maybe im jus broken but i find those little interactions annoying in a fun way, ive even been like “ohhhh my godddd i hear that all the time” all dramatic like, and we both get a laugh
And if its a shitty day, its jus an eyeroll and at least i dont have to think about it much
Some people are just trying to make pleasant small talk and you are essentially an npc so not really much that can happen that will warrant varying replies. Seems more like you just hate your job and would prefer to suffer in silence. I’d much rather hear an over used cliche than a Karen.
Autistic cashier here. Yes. Yes it does. No I do not realize you are joking. Please be kind to service workers we are actively having the worst times of our lives because we need money.
That's part of it too, like it's also just kinda tacky to all for free stuff at a place with almost 0 incentive to ever just give something away for free. Turns into one of those "do I come to your place of work and 'jokingly' ask you for free stuff?" kind of feelings
Yeah but not the thing people are putting on the belt at the front that they put in the cart with the intention of paying for at the register. That's why I didn't say 0
That's not giving stuff away for free and that is intended to get to 0 because of the coupon. These are planned activities. The stupid joke stems from unplanned things like not being able to scan something.
Yes, but that's approved by the store. Giving shit away unauthorized as a cashier could get you fired or even charged with theft. Not smart for a cashier to do that.
You don't understand why it would be annoying as fuck to have everyone use the same joke constantly on you when a piece of your equipment fails and you have to take special action to get it to work so you can complete your task and not get fired for failing to properly check someone out?
Oh you’re definitely right actually! I think I was conflating the two tbh. Both do have the propensity to change your state of being though for the worse tho
Yeah I get it completely! Just from my perspective when you cuss someone out in your head or in real life, it does not make a difference for your emotional state of being. I think I was focusing too much on that
Getting told the exact same joke over and over again gets annoying fast. Something not scanning happens multiple times in a 8 hour period let alone a 40 hour a week period. We get that joke a lot more often than we get random good job or keep it up comments.
Speaking from some long-ago retail ptsd, after the 109th person to tell you that joke, half of which are semi serious, it's just not fuckin funny anymore. Retail is such a soul sucking experience and customers in retail are oblivious at best, and horrible at worst to retail workers. So when I have to hear the shitty joke from the rich lady with the screaming kids or the annoying guy flirting with the too-young cashier or whatever the case, or the young kids you thought might try to steal the thing anyway, that joke just stopped being funny at a point and became annoying as fuck instead.
As somebody who worked a job with a similar, repetitive joke: you have to put a face on every day. Sometimes, you aren't having a good day. And on those days, you still need to say "thanks for shopping at Costco. I love you" even though you just want to curl up on the couch and cease to exist for a while.
So there you are. You're taking care of another customer. Business as usual. Zoning out, and getting through the day. Minutes are taking hours. And then it happens. He says the fucking joke. He's the 10th guy this month that gets to you in line and says the joke. He looks at you expectantly. His expression says it all: "ARENT I JUST SO CLEVER?! REWARD ME. LAUGH AT MY GENIUS".
And you just want to snap. You want to tell him you've heard better jokes in a Catholic mass. But you can't. You have to come back to work tomorrow. So you summon up that frustratingly difficult, last existing ounce of energy to say "haha, yeah. Good one" and you bite your tongue.
When I was a cashier my store told us that discounts $50 and under I could give out without manager approval to keep people happy. Sometimes people would make that joke and I always found it hilarious to say “no”, manually ring in the item and give them like 10% off their entire order. Their disappointment and change to being elated was so fucking funny to me. I didn’t give a shit since it was a job in college and a huge retailer so id hand out discounts like candy.
My friend came in once just to say hi and i was like “that was nice of you to break up my day, here is 75% off everything” lol. I miss not giving a shit
Unfortunately that was a college job for beer money. I since got my degree and work in an entirely different industry. If i ever am between jobs and am a cashier I will be right back to not giving a shit lol
My best friend worked at a pizza place and my mom called in for an order, two large pizzas or the like, should have been like $20 dollars or more. She went, "ok, thanks Ms. (my last name) your total is $2.89" and hung up. I wasn't even living at home, I was away at college, but she still gave my parents the hook up.
College roommate worked at a pizza place. All I had to do was text message him “pizza please”. And when he got home there would be the largest sized pizza (like mega family size) and the same size box of garlic parm twists. Soooo much food. Depending on how my friends were I’d invite them over to get some. My roommates manager didn’t give a shit lol.
My friend was in a relationship with the manager, which is why she didn't get in trouble. In HS we went by the shop to see when she was off so we could plan when to go bowling, she said give me 5 mins, went to the back and came out 5 mins later and said we can go. Apparently head is enough to get you let go early for the night when you are dating the manager.
That actually happened to me once in a big way. I bought a giant filet to make for a group of people in a mountain town Safeway which was custom cut at the meat dept. well I guess they mislabeled it or something, and I was sweating because I realized it was like a $100+ piece of meat. I was chopping it up with the cashier and she made some attempts to scan and finally bagged it with the rest of the groceries we were buying for the weekend. Once we left I thought the total was kinda low so I looked at the receipt and saw she never rang the meat up.
Lmao. That's right up there with the ol restaurant saying. Waiter asks "did you enjoy your meal?". Customer: "oh as you can see I HATED IT!" (pan down to an empty plate) Everyone: loud fake laughs
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u/pizzaduh 4d ago
I was at smart and final some months ago and the barcode on my steaks wouldn't scan. I told the cashier to just enter it manually and he said, "Not for what they pay me." And put it in my bag for free.